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WATCHING The History Channel on cable TV recently about the Colosseum in Rome, I was surprised to learn that such an amphitheatre could carry out naval battles called naumachiae within its grounds during the days of the Roman Republic. The first was organised by Julius Caesar in 46BC.
This involved filling the arena with several metres of water channelled underground to the Colosseum from the Tiber River and finally letting the water out to the Fucine Lake or back to the Tiber.
Can this spectacle be carried out at the new National Stadium with water from the nearby Kallang River and sports such as water-skiing and military skills?
The new National Stadium could be the world's first to be inspired by naumachiae.
Dennis Gordon De Souza
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